A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation for Stroke Patients

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stroke Sequelae
• Interventions: Behavioral: Telerehabilitation; Behavioral: Conventional inpatient rehabilitation

• Registration Number: NCT04116190
• Lead Sponsor: Vetrea Terveys Oy

Brief Summary

Objective: Evaluate the feasibility of a multidisciplinary telerehabilitation for chronic stroke patients.

Design: Chronic stroke patients eligible for multidisciplinary rehabilitation funded by the Social Insurance Institution were enrolled between September 2017 and March 2018 in a consecutive basis to receive a mixed program of inpatient rehabilitation and telerehabilitation in their homes or a traditional inpatient rehabilitation only.

Intervention: A rehabilitation course with a 3-day inpatient stay followed by an 8-week telerehabilitation period completed by 2-day evaluation stay in a rehab center. The control group received conventional multidisciplinary rehabilitation for two weeks in an inpatient setting.

Outcome and measures: Change in the Finnish version of Functional Status Questionnaire (FSQFin), the World Health Organization Quality of Life - Short version (WHOQOL-Bref), the Barthel Index, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI21), and the Goal Attainment Scale (GAS) and a patient satisfaction questionnaire.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-05-01
• Study Completion: 2018-05-31
• Study First Submitted: 2019-06-28
• Status Verified: 2019-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-10-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-10-03
• Study First Posted: 2019-10-04
• Last Update Posted: 2019-10-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 45

Inclusion Criteria

• chronic stroke (6 months or more) patient living in home
• eligible to receive rehabilitation funded by the Social Insurance Institution (meets the criteria of chronic disability and need for rehabilitation)
• for intervention group: capable to use a personal computer and telecommunication

Exclusion Criteria

• no access or capability to use a personal computer
• significant problems in hearing, seeing or understanding information related to the intervention

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Telerehabilitation (TR)	Telerehabilitation	Shortened inpatient rehabilitation mixed with home-based telerehabilitation.
Conventional rehabilitation (CR)	Conventional inpatient rehabilitation	Traditional inpatient rehabilitation

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Finnish version of the Functional Status Questionnaire (FSQfin)	8 weeks	Functional Status Questionnaire for evaluating self-management in home. Includes three dimensions: self-care, mobility and domestic life. Scale range for each dimension is 0-100 and higher scores indicate better outcome.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
World Health Organization Quality of Life - short version (WHOQOL-Bref)	8 weeks	Quality of life assessment. Includes four dimensions: physical health, psychological health, social relationships and environment. Scale range for each dimension is 0-100 and higher scores indicate better outcome.
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI 21)	8 weeks	The Beck Depression Inventory for mood assessment. Scale range is 0-63 and higher scores indicate worse outcome.
Barthel Index	8 weeks	for assessing need for help in basic activities of daily living. Scale range is 0-100 and higher scores indicate better outcome.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Vetrea; 🇫🇮 Kuopio, North Savo, Finland